Insight Global is seeking a Legal Project Manager to join the Innovation and Value Department of an AM 100 law firm. The LPM will work with client teams to manage a portfolio of matters to ensure outstanding client service, maximized efficiency, and enhanced profitability. The LPM will work closely with client teams, clients and firm operational departments to plan, estimate, and manage the delivery of legal services.
The LPM will support attorneys in all offices of the firm in managing our business and clients. The LPM will be responsible for supporting the delivery of the full matter lifecycle, from budgeting and inception through to the completion of post-closing activities, for a portfolio of significant matters (or work streams within those matters) to ensure that they are delivered in accordance with the client's needs, efficiently, on budget and within agreed upon timeframes. The role will be client facing for key engagements, and the LPM will join the lawyers as a part of the engagement team. The focus of this position will be developing budgets, client proposals, timelines, reports and matter plans. This role will have close working relationships with the Chief Innovation and Value Officer, practice group leaders, and certain firm committees to support matter management initiatives.
Essential Functions of the role are:
Matter Management Program:
-Develop matter management service levels in partnership with department leadership.
-Develop fee arrangement monitoring and escalation strategy in partnership with the Senior Value Manager and oversee the management of the firms fee arrangements leveraging the firms budget management tools and resources.
-Lead contingency portfolio matter management; collaborating with attorneys and the Pricing Manager to develop contingency submission materials, monitoring strategy and escalation protocols, ensure the firms contingency arrangements are monitored, and provide periodic reports to key stakeholders.
-Develop and promote an after-action review framework in partnership with the Senior Value Manager; make recommendations for matters suitable for after-action reviews; conduct after-action reviews and document/share findings with key stakeholders.
Client Proposals:
-Collaborate with attorneys, paralegals, and others (as required) to define matter scope, identify work tasks, estimate time/duration, assign resources, develop fee estimates based on the scope of work and staffing plan, prioritize tasks, define dependencies and risks, and manage performance against goals.
-Collaborate with the Pricing Team and attorneys to prepare responses to pitch and RFP submissions relating to budgeting, staffing and matter management/value-related topics.
-Develop budgets and straightforward fixed fee arrangements, ensure appropriate approvals and establish monitoring.
-Collaborate with the Innovation team to identify service delivery solutions to recommend in client pitches and proposals.
-Suggest and create budget to actual and fee reports for clients in partnership with the legal team.
Matter and Client Analysis:
-Collaborate with Practice Analytics, Practice Management teams and firm leaders to identify client matters suitable for matter management; make recommendations for matter management support according to LPM service levels.
-Track and analyze actual engagement time and costs against budget, and help lawyers proactively address expected budget variances.
-Manipulate and analyze data using advanced Excel skills or other data analysis and reporting tools to present information.
-Learn about firm systems and data; apply understanding of financial concepts, problem solving skills and a strong client service orientation to navigate and apply systems and data in ways that benefit the firm and clients.
This role has a hybrid working arrangement, 3 days per week in their Boston, Dallas, NYC, Philadelphia or Washington DC offices .
$130K to $160K per year annual salary. Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education. Benefits are provided.
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-5 years minimum of legal project management experience
-Expert level understanding of legal pricing, budget management, and project management
-Proposal experience
-Understanding of the full matter lifecycle from budgeting and inception through the completion of post-closing activities, including developing budgets, client proposals, timelines, reports, and matter plans.
-Masters degree a plus.
-Formal legal project management qualification (e.g. ALPM, PMP or equivalent) desirable.
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.